Word: session
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imposing order. President Ludvik Svoboda, the gray-haired old soldier, rejected the ultimatum as an "unacceptable threat." But Dubček, the unhappy compromiser, sensed the gravity of the crisis and gave the Soviets his pledge. Said one Czechoslovak who attended the meeting: "It was a cold, tough session, with the Russians making it clear that they would not tolerate any squirming out of their demands...
...Kosygin and Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev pressed their allies to sign an already prepared document condemning the Chinese. Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu refused, standing his ground in the face of Brezhnev's charges that he was "taking the side of that yellow gang." The meeting's official session, in fact, lasted only two hours, the shortest on record. In the end, it produced only a declaration calling for a Europe-wide consultative meeting on "questions of security and cooperation," hardly a new point. Clearly, the East Europeans felt that the trouble in Asia was a problem for Peking...
When the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case, it looked as if the Yale professor's crusade was finished. As a last resort, he decided to see whether Caron would furnish any more clues to the real identity of his contact under hypnosis. The session provided an unexpected payoff. Before Caron went into a trance, he confided that Government prosecutors had also interrogated him under hypnosis just before Miller's trial...
...churches that he originally exhorted to lead the movement now have five additional partners,* the nine churches together representing more than 25 million U.S. Protestants. This year an outline of a long-awaited plan of union was submitted to the members, and from it, at next year's session, the detailed plan itself will be worked...
...Delta. It was to be inexpensive enough to appeal to three-car families and retired people, yet sufficiently stylish to attract young people on their first or second cars. Ford is attempting to attract young buyers by offering the Maverick in colors that were created at a group brainstorming session, presumably held in a cornfield. The colors include Freudian Gilt, Original Cinnamon, Thanks Vermilion and Hulla-Blue. The standard gag among the executives is that the company will entertain any name except "Statutory Grape...